Paperboy on 2nd floor of a House?

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I just purchased a Paperboy machine and was planning on putting it in my second story den. I already have two pins in there, a Star Trek Next Gen and a Monster Bash. The wifey is concerned about the Paperboy being in there with the others, although it will be on the opposite wall from the pins. Should I have any concern about this?

Thanks in advance!

RD
 
If you can get that beast of a cabinet up to a second floor, you shouldnt be concerned about anything. You should be proud.
 
Make sure there's plenty of support underneath where the machines are.

I stored a few machines in a room over our living room for about a month or so. The ceiling started to bend.

Atypical for most scenarios, but I don't know how your place is laid out.
 
My "game room" is on our second story. I have 3 machines sitting side by side. A cocktail, a midway cab, and a big atari beast. I don't see any problem with it.
 
You have any fat friends that can sit up there for a week or so?

Give that 300+ pounder a pizza and a tv. Then, you can judge if the floor will hold.

Just an idea... :rolleyes:
 
Hope that you can find some room for it. Best thing is to find room for it.
Where you want it and how it would look in that room you put in. Good luck!
 
I have a friend with a stair dolly, so it shouldn't be a problem getting it up there. My concern is the weight with the pins up there too.

The Paperboy will be all the way in the corner of the house, so I am thinking that would be the spot in the second floor with the most support. So I THINK it would be ok, just wanted to see what anyone else thought. It's a newer house, built within the past ten years, if that makes a difference.

Just out of curiousity...why are the Atari cabinets so heavy? I noticed a wood panel in the middle of the machine (basically half way from the back of the cabinet)...is that just to add support for the cabinet? I had a 25" WrestleFest machine (4 player, a beast for sure) that seemed to be nowhere near as heavy as this Paperboy!

Many thanks for everyone's help!

RD
 
I'm going to put something into perspective for you.
A Waterbed weights approx 2800 pounds and you can easily put one of those as well as other furniture in a standard bed room.

A standard arcade game weights under 300 pounds.

You can put at least 7 in there before you even weigh as much as the bed.
Factor in the weight of dressers, a TV, contents of dressers, and your easily adding
another 1000 pounds.

You can do 10 without a second thought. You could probably do 15 without a problem.
 
I'm going to put something into perspective for you.
A Waterbed weights approx 2800 pounds and you can easily put one of those as well as other furniture in a standard bed room.

A standard arcade game weights under 300 pounds.

You can put at least 7 in there before you even weigh as much as the bed.
Factor in the weight of dressers, a TV, contents of dressers, and your easily adding
another 1000 pounds.

You can do 10 without a second thought. You could probably do 15 without a problem.

Thanks, I had the waterbed analogy in mind too. The only difference is that the weight of the waterbed is spread out; this is a much more confined weight. I agree, I don't THINK it would be an issue, but just wanted some other takes on it. Sounds like as long as I have ONE up there, I'll be alright.

Thanks!

RD
 
Without getting too technical, your house truss/joist system was built to withstand certain amounts of live and dead load in relation to span and bearing walls below. If you have nothing below your arcade room but empty space, there's a chance that over time, you may see some sagging however, these few machines aren't even gonna make a dent in the capacity rating your floors currently have.
 
found this on another fourm with a google search, I don't understand it, but it may be relevant.

well, you can basically assume it this way. just take the area of the floor and divide it up accordingly to the main girders by tributary area. since there's joists, you can essentially treat the floor as a one-way slab. then, calculate your dead load, live load, and superimposed loads, and split them up onto the girders according to the tributary area. since youre on second floor, you can use the ASCE live load reduction factor. since the weight is on a beam, the live load element factor is 2. then you plug into the ASCE live load reduction equation:

L = L(sub 0) * ( 0.25 + 15 / (K(sub LL) * (A(subT))^(1/2)) )

now you know how much weight your floor can handle!!!!











seriously, though, these days, the ASCE (american society of civil engineers) reccomends a live load capability of 30 psf for residential habitable areas. so, if you room is say 10 ft x 10 ft, then you have 100 square feet * 30 psf = 3000 lbs. you should have no problem with 5 or 600 pounds.
 
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